Subject: Re: Crossover Office?
To: Konrad Neuwirth <konrad@mailathome.or.at>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/27/2003 07:06:20
In message <17381831657.20030227103128@mailathome.or.at>, Konrad Neuwirth write
s:
>Greetings earthlings,
>
>  has anybody had positive results in getting CrossOver Office to run
>under Linux emulation?  I have to be using Microsoft Office and
>haven't yet found another way to get that beast running anywhere other
>than Windows.
>

I'm using vmware.  However, it wouldn't run at all until I increased m 
physical memory from 256M to 512M (on 1.6).

If you do use vmware, here's a hint:  don't enable the linuxrtc module 
unless you absolutely need it (see the vmware documentation):  it makes 
vmware take about 100% of the CPU.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)